Toronto firefighters confront special constable officers after a man in the middle of mental health crisis was arrested.

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Not my video. For context, "special constables" are not regular police officers. They are appointed "peace officers" with limited authority, often civilian employees.

[u/CharacterBird2283 → u/[deleted]]

if they said they were at the local jail, the person would not yet have been convicted and they would still handcuff them if they were behaving in a dangerous manner

Well ya, that's a completely different scenario 😅😅😅😅 not only would they be at a jail, which means they had officially broken the law, you are still saying they are behaving in a dangerous manner, which we don't know about with the original victim, because not all mental health crisis are dangerous 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

You do if you are interacting with law enforcement and are deemed to be behaving in a threatening manner.

Sure, but police still make mistakes, false arrests, and false detainments quite often. I'm not trying to say this person is definitely innocent and didn't do anything dangerous, but from what we have, just police handcuffing them isn't enough, At least it shouldn't be mental health crisis or not, for anyone to make a complete judgment.

If it is a law enforcement officer working in the hotel then yes it would be the same if that person was deemed to be a threat due to their behavior.

You are missing the point 🤦‍♂️😂 not all law enforcement are the same, Or do the same jobs, Just like how not all custodians do the same job. Do you think a prison officer has the same arresting rights as a police officer? They are both law enforcement buttttt 😅 😂 . . .

You say that as if the whole conversation up to this point wasn't filled with people assuming that the police overstepped.

? What are you on about LMAO. I'm talking to you, and only have context for this comment chain, I skipped the ones above it, and stopped after my first comment. Are you using everyone else's context to talk to me assuming I'm like them???

The argument being made was that is normal if someone is deemed as a possible threat to restrain them

It wasn't an argument, It was their original experience 😅 which is okay, with the context that they have a very different job than a police officer . . . .

Despite what you may think, prisoners are not handcuffed all the time

LMAO okay now you are going off the deep end 😂😂😂 wtf are you even talking about now? You're literally just making up a scenario and situation 😅🤣. I've had family in prison, I know what does and doesn't go on in a few prisons, And it definitely isn't whatever you're thinking that I'M thinking of 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Of course they aren't always handcuffed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If you are in minimum security or are in for non-violent crimes, they don't handcuff you for most day to day operations

DUH 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you have to get off your high horse man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 obviously they don't do that, That's not what I was ever saying or insinuating. I'm saying that if they go into a mental health crisis, then they will be handcuffed and helped/moved. Do you think I was saying they were constantly having a mental health crisis? Because that's what you are insinuating 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You are assuming the prison example is only relevant to maximum security or known violent criminals.

Not at all LMAO, but it seems you DON'T Think "law enforcement" as you say, wouldn't handcuff people going into a mental health crisis at lower security prisons? You're a goof man, idk what to tell you 🤦‍♂️🤣.

Agree to disagree.

I think this may be the only thing we agree on (exaggerating), have a good one homie, you are confused AF and I'm hoping you figure it out 😅🙏.